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Specification of Letters ?atent. Emigrante@ D36, 19, jlg,

Application filed November 11, 19715. Serial No. 60,872.

To all 'whom z't may concern Be it known that I, HARRY MACCANLIS, a citizen of the United States, and `a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the ncounty and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Sample-Card, of which the following is al full, clear, and exact description.

One object'ofY the invention is to provide a new and improved sample card provided with a series of sample-carrying tabs, any one of which can be readily removed and replaced by anotherI in case the particular pattern is sold out or discontinued, thereby maintaining at all times a proper appearance of the sample card.

Another object is to hold the sample'- carying tabs securely in position on the car In order to accomplish the desired result, use is made of a sample card provided near each side edge with a pair of spaced parallel slits, and a sample-carrying tab overlying the face of the sample card and provided at its ends with tongues extending through the outermost slits to the back of the card and then being bent inward to extend through the innermost slits to the front of the card underneath the tab.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts` in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of an open sample book containing two sample cards; Fig".` 2 is a plan view of the same; Fig. 3 is an enlarged rear face .View of one o t carrying tabs with portions broken out; and Fig. 4 is a cross section of the same on the line 4 4 of Fig. `3.

- The sample-carrying card 10 has its body made of suitable paper or like material, and the card is provided near its side edges with pairs of parallel slits 11, 12 and 1 3, 14 adapted to be engaged by tongues 15, 16 'extending from the ends of the tabs 17 carrying a sample 18 of the goods desired to be exhibited to the prospective purchasers.k It is understood that each tab 17 with its sample 18 thereon overlies the face of a card 10'in va sidewise direction, and the tongue 15 of each tab 17 extends firstV through the slit 11 to the back of the card, and it then) extends inwardly through the'slit 12 to the face of the Card underneath the tab, as

he sample plainly indicated in Fig. 2. i The tongue 16 of each tab 17 extends first through the slit 13 to the back of the card and is then bent inwardly and passed through the slit 14 to extend to the face of the card underneath the tab 17 also, as plainly shown in Fig. 2. It will be noticed that by engaging the tongues 15 and 16 with the pairs of slits 11, 12 and 13, 14 as described, the tab is securely held in position and the ends of the tongues 15 and 16 are completely concealed, so that the back of the card 10 presents no undesirable projections liable to be caught on the samples exhibited on the face of the next following card, as 'will be readily understood by reference to Figs. 1 and 2. It will also be noticed that by the arrangement described lany one of the sample-carrying tabs 17 can be readily removed from the card 10 by disengaging the tongues 15 and 16 from the corresponding slits 11, 12 and 13, 14 and lifting the tab ofi the card. The removed tab can bereadily replaced by another-one so. that an unbroken series of samples are displayed on the front face of the card 10.

In order to irmly stretch the sample 18 Y -over the face of its tab 17, the sides thereof are preferably provided with flanges 19, 20",

bent over onto the back of the tab and to which are secured the top and bottom edges of the samples so that when the anges 19 and 20 lie flat on the face of the card 10 the card 10 to provide suiiicient space on the' .tongue for receiving a numeral or other character indicating the corresponding pat-- tern of the sample 18 carried by the tab.

r1`wo or more sample cards 10 are bound between flanges 21 and 22 formed at the back edges of a front .cover 23 and a rear cover 24, as plainly shown in Figs. 1 and 2. rllhe outer faces of the flanges 21 and 22 are overlaid by -strips or washers 25, 26, and' fasteners 27 extend throu h the strips 25, 26, the flanges 21, 22 andg the portions of the cards 10 extending between the said anges so as to securely fasten the sample cards in position betweenthe covers 23 and 24. It will be noticed that bythis arrangement the sample book when closed presents no undesirable projections such as are usually found on sample hooks as new con structed and having the clenched ends of theFA carrying tab provided at its ends with fasteners as well as the heads thereof exi tending in the outside of thecovers. Thus a large number of sample books can be readily packed in a trunk or other receptacle without danger of entanglement and without injury t0 the hands or mutilation of the covers while handling the sample books.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A sample card provided withya sampletongues and at its sides with flan' es bent onto the back, and a sample extending over 15 the face of the tab and secured at its edges to the said flanges.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, HARRY MACCANLIS.

Witnesses:

CHAS. MIERISCH, JAMES B. MORRISON. 

